Month: October 2005

It is a best kept secret -employees creating personal artifacts, poems etc. during working hours using employer’s facilities and even material. What about it? Managements mostly turn a blind eye and behave as if such things don’t happen. But should one ignore them? These artifacts are called as homers. As this article discusses. Homers: Secrets … More Spot the talent and let it bloom

Surprising amount of time is often spent on giving and taking feedback. Feedback, usually tends to be critical and is taken personally. It almost always leads to heartbuns and defensiveness. Quite unexpectedly, it is counter productive too. It is better to focus on future. It is better to build some kind of ongoing forecasting ability … More Feed forward tool for business transformation

I came across this story. I feel a new classic is in the making -how a strategic muddle is sought be treated by marketing cover-ups. Read on.. QUOTE McDonald’s: facing fat The 50-year-old firm temporarily diverged from its mascot Ronald McDonald in Japan for a fling with a glamorous twenty-something model. The move has now … More McDonald’s: facing fat -a marketing problem or a strategic muddle?